Resources for Middle School Students, Parents and Faculty
Last edited by : Middle School Academics  on  2010-05-11 8:22:10

For Students:

Student Skyward Access
First Class (AES e-mail)
Library
Discovery Education United Streaming
Population Project 2009

Many of the resources available for our students and staff are maintained in our FirstClass course management software. They are not available on the school website.

For Parents:

Skyward Family Access
The Middle School Counseling site has information and links regarding Internet Safety, and Cyberbullying.

Here are some of the resources that we encourage students to use online.

Computer and Internet Safety

  
Raising a Digital Child: A Digital Citizenship Handbook for Parents - a new book published by the International Society for Technology in Education  

Get Safe Online - Excellent resource site for personal PC protection (Mac users too) and Internet Safety.

  
Cyberbully Quiz for Students  
Media Literacy  
Facebook Privacy Information- From the Facebook website  
What Parents Should Know about Safe Game Consoling- From PC MAG  
Intel Guidelines for Data Privacy
  
   

Ethics and Fair Use

Ethics in computing- Good source of information about many aspects of computer ethics.

Cyberbee: Cool interface with fast answers to the basic questions

FairUse Guide - Excellent basic information for teachers and students.

Copyright Information

Copyright Website - Great Wealth of information

Plagarism.org (Research Resources fromTurnitin.com) An excellent site for information related to plagarism

Copyright Chart - Cornell University Copyright Center outlines current copywright terms.

Copyright Bay - Interesting, clever, informative site

 

Citations and Biblography

Citation Maker -An interactive Web tool designed to assist teachers

The Write Source- Excellent guide to MLA examples

MLA Style Information - Comprhensive site for all citation questions

MLA Works Cited Page - Examples are here

BibMe - Automatic bibliography entries

 

 

For Faculty:

Discovery Education United Streaming 
Atlas Rubicon 
Skyward Teacher Access 
Maintenance Direct Work Orders